Application & Product Security Architect ID-1586

November 27, 2024

WHAT IS BOX?

Box is the market leader for Cloud Content Management. Our mission is to power how the world works together. Box is partnering with enterprise organizations to accelerate their digital transformation by creating a single platform for secure content management, collaboration and workflow. We have an amazing opportunity to further establish ourselves as leaders in the space, and we need strong advocates to help us achieve that goal.

By joining Box, you will have the unique opportunity to help capture a majority of this developing market and define what content management looks like for the digital enterprise. Today, Box powers 100,000+ businesses, including many top Fortune 500 companies who trust our secure collaboration platform to manage the entire content lifecycle.

WHY BOX NEEDS YOU

Box is looking for a thought leader who can design, implement, and maintain a best-in-class software security posture.

We’re looking for a seasoned software security architect who understands secure software development to design automated and integrated secure development patterns within the development ecosystem and has an understanding of DevSecOps to create tool integration architecture.

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WHAT YOU'LL DO

Provide subject matter expertise, roadmaps, strategies, reference architectures for application and product security
Provide thought leadership in the areas of security tool automation, optimization, application vulnerability management and strategies for risk reduction
Create design of comprehensive architectural patterns for secure development standards for front end, APIs and mobile
Develop and maintain application security policies, standards, and guidelines, and ensure their adherence across projects.
Develop strategy to automate software security vulnerability verification within throughout the development process
Collaborate closely with cross-functional architects to identify application-based vulnerabilities, design secure application architectures, and guide the integration of security measures into the development process
Create architecture design for tool integrations and implement tooling within CI/CD pipeline, limit manual testing and troubleshooting
Lead security engineer and software engineer training related to high risk security risks
Evaluate products for security gaps through threat modeling and pen testing
Lead M&A security evaluations

WHO YOU ARE

You understand secure engineering best practices, can articulate problem statements and propose solutions to both technically savvy and non-technical audiences
You know the software security secure development best practices specific to development languages and frameworks, know the security tooling landscape and have implemented large scale security programs at organizations with complex application architecture
You have a growth mindset, push yourself towards excellence and focus on continuous functional improvements
You are a curious person who looks at problem statements and can clearly propose actionable solutions
You have a passion for cyber security demonstrated through participation/leadership in conferences, webinars, Capture the Flag (CTF), TryHackMe, Bug Bounty, Submission of CVEs and/or personal projects
Strong understanding of past, current, and emerging security exploits
Remote friendly

Requirements

At least 10+ years experience in software engineering, architecture and software security
5+ years previous experience leading large software security initiatives and/or transformations
Knowledge of OWASP Top 10, Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST), Static Application Security Testing (SAST), API Security Testing Tools, Automated Mobile Testing Tools and Threat Modeling tools
At least 1 security certification (ex. CISSP, OSCP, GWEB, CEH, GRTP, GWEB)
Experience with multiple languages such as Java, React, Node JS, PHP, Scala, C and/or Python
Understand how to detect and prioritize Front End, API's, Microservices and Container vulnerabilities
Familiar with common build/automation tooling: ex. Jenkins, GIT

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